Location: Home > history > This Day In History March 16
1968: My Lai Massacre.On this day in 1968, during the Vietnam War, U.S. soldiers dispatched on a search-and-destroy mission killed as many as 500 unarmed villagers in the hamlet of My Lai, considered a stronghold of the Viet Cong.More events on this day1945:U.S. Marines captured the Japanese island of Iwo Jima during World War II. |
1926:American inventor Robert H. Goddard launched the first successful liquid-propellant rocket. |
1921:The Treaty of Moscow established friendly relations between the nationalist government of Turkey and the Soviet Union. |
1850:American author Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter was published. |
1802:The United States Military Academy at West Point, New York—one of the oldest service academies in the world—was originally founded as a training centre for the U.S. Corps of Engineers. |
1521:Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan, sailing under the Spanish flag on his circumnavigation of the globe, reached the Philippines, securing the first alliance in the Pacific Islands for Spain. |
|
Artical Related:
This Day In HistoryMarch 18
This Day In HistoryMarch 17
This Day In HistoryMarch 15
This Day In HistoryMarch 14
This Day In HistoryMarch 13
